NYC in the Holidays

If you love the holiday’s you should experience the holiday season in New York City at least once in your lifetime.

 New York City goes all out during the holiday season. Department stores, businesses, and the city streets pull out their best decorations for tourists.

The most iconic place to visit is the Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center. The massive tree is a hot spot in New York during the season. Millions pass through Rockefeller Center to take pictures, ice skate, and simply view the tree. It can be hectic and heavily crowded at times, especially later in the day, so the best time to visit would definitely be earlier in the day.

After seeing the tree, make your way down to the Avenue of the Americas and see the Radio City Christmas Spectacular at the Radio City Music Hall. Radio City is home of the Rockettes who participate annually in the show. Each year the show is light hearted and really brings the holiday spirit!

Your next destination is Fifth Ave. Department stores festively decorate their buildings and window displays. The season brings a whole new joy to window-shopping.

Walking along the streets of New York City during the holiday season you can experience joyful music and festive decorations on every block. A visit to the city is sure to kick-off your holiday season and get you into the holiday spirit!
 

Video Project #2 A Day in the Life of a Tutor

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1065701

The Academic Support Center at Lyndon State College offers many services to the students.

The faculty and staff of the center offer tutoring in a plethora of subjects, a writing center, academic counseling, ESL, services for students with disabilities, and a math resource center.

They also offer a federally funded program called Project Excel. This programs helps eligible students graduate from college. Project Excel offers tutoring and services for students with disabilities as well, along with academic and personal counseling, scholarships, financial advising, and a laptop lending program.

Student tutors are one of the most easily accessed services of Academic Support. Most tutors are often students enrolled at Lyndon State College, and are hired through a direct hire method, rather than work study. Student tutors are hired by Debra Bailin, the director of Student Academic Development.

Upon arrival to the writing center, which is home of the different services offered by academic support, a student can find a schedule of when tutors are working and the subjects that they are eligible to cover as a tutor. Students are allowed to work with the tutor they have sought out for up to an hour, for the purposes of sanity and a clear mind.

The students can search on the schedule when there will be a tutor available for a specific subject, and they can see who is currently working in the writing center. There are math tutors, writing tutors, science tutors, and tutors for almost every major, like Electronic Journalism Arts and Mountain Recreation.

When it comes to counseling, ESL, services for students with disabilities, and Project Excel, students can seek information and help from the faculty and staff located in the writing center. Often times, the faculty and staff of Academic Support often work one on one with students of this nature, to give them the best possible service they can.

Unlike this, student tutors do not usually work one on one. They sit in the open environment of the writing center, around other students and tutors, to receive the help they are looking for.

Some professors at the college provide extra credit to students who seek help from one of the services offered by Academic Support. Tutors have a log book to record when they have worked with a student, which is available for professors to see, or often times, a brief note can be written by the tutor to the professor, to make them aware that they have worked with a student.

The Academic Support community at Lyndon State College provides a relaxed, helpful environment for students to seek help and guidance.

Final Project Outline

The topic of our final project is where to go during the holiday season in New York City.

The components of multimedia that we would like to use are audio slideshow, video clips, and maps.

Rachel will be the photographer, Vinnie will create the maps, and Camille will put it all together.

Video Project 2 outline

The topic of our second video project is a day in the life of a Lyndon State College tutor. Our tutor is Dom Amato. It is his first year being a tutor and we plan to do a mini feature on him.

We plan to use natural sound of the tutor center, sound from the interview with Dom, and rights free background music.

Camille - Interview
Rachel - Video
Vinnie- Editing

Lyndon Vail Museum

Video Project Breakdown

We are doing our video project on the Vail Museum. As for the audio, it's going to be an interview, however, we aren't to sure about who we are going to Interview at this point. The will also be a faint natural sound in the back ground!

- Write up - Joe
- Video - Vinnie
- Editing - Vinnie
- Conduct interview - Both

The Hour, Raccoon stuck in a drain

The newspaper I decided to look at is The Hour, this is the paper that covers Norwalk, CT. My local paper back home. Some of their videos are interview, news style which is good, but one video I found was one of the worst things I've seen, to be put in the paper at least. The video average are about the average length of a new report. The video I found was of a Raccoon, stuck in a drain, and it was probably the most pointless video I have seen on a newspaper website. 

iReport

iReport is a pretty unique website, its not that easy of a website to navigate around at first. I really like the whole concept behind it, having the people do the reports and what not, easy way to cover more with less employees. What I dislike the most is defiantly the layout of the site, it gets confusing real quick.

Hornets Nest Soundslide

On a small campus like Lyndon’s, there are limited options for food. The dining hall serves three meals a day, but the food is generally agreed to be of a lesser quality. The Hornet’s Nest, the snack bar here on campus is in the student center on the second floor of Vail. Students pay for their food by using declining balance flex points. These foods tend to be a little better because of the fact that its cooked a little more thoroughly, more so cooked more individualized, versus trying to cook multiple rotisserie chickens, things like that, to serve the hundreds of students that swarm into the Dining hall at once. There are also things like protein bars, candy bars, bags of chips, and even a couple cereal boxes. The Hornets nest doesn’t just serve as a food place though. It has a newly renovated lounge which allows students to use as a place to study, a place to meet other students, and a place to just hang out with the friends they already have. It is a far more mellowed out environment then Steven Dining Hall which is most of the time during meal times, is too chaotic to even hear your own thoughts. The newly renovated Hornet’s Nest has more of a coffee shop kind of place. High tables with high chairs, tables small and round, and a small stage, it’s a generally relaxed feeling place. Before the renovations, the Hornet’s Nest had a very groggy feeling. It had old bench seats, used and abused furniture that looked to be scraped together from renovation around the school. Granted all the activities that occur in the Hornets Nest still occurred before the renovations, it now has a better set up for it, and also a more suitable environment. Lyndon puts on events that also go along with the coffee shop feel like stated before. There are concerts with the local bands, battle of the bands, and events of that nature. The bands that play at these events tend to be quiet, mellow, and relaxed bands, which goes along perfectly with the “coffee shop” concept.

Practice Soundslide

Slideshow about the Hornets Nest at LSC

newsLINC critique

I like the layout of the tabs such as NEK, Vermont, New Hampshire, Weather, Sports, and Special Coverage. It makes the home page real easy to navigate.

What I do not like about it is the way the tabs are set up like once you go into the Vermont tab, that 

articles are laid out one by one, I feel it makes it a little harder to find an specific article, you need to scroll and keep scrolling until you find it, instead of having it laid out with the article title. There’s no “main Vermont” page. 

That’s what I would change also.

Mash up Podcast

Mash up music is a generally new style of music. Mash up music is when an artist takes clips, instrumentals, etc., of a whole bunch of different songs and throws it together into one fluent sounding song. Its rising goes hand and hand with the evolutions of music. In our podcast we talk about DJ Earworm a lot. The reason for that is because he displays perfectly what a mash up can do at its finest. He does this because at the end of every year since 2007, he has released a new “Unites states of Pop” song. It is a mash up of the top 25 songs of the year according to billboard magazine.

Now don’t get me wrong, he isn’t the first and he isn’t the only artist that does mash ups. The philosophy of mash up music has its origins in the cut-up poetry of Jack Kerouac. Early artists used tape splicing and manual editing to create remixes. The remixing of disco was the origin of house music. Soon, though, the hardware available could not match the demand for chopped and rearranged musical elements. Only after computerized software di the art form come into maturity.

Greg Gillis, who goes by “Girl Talk” is greatly accredited for the creation what is now known as mash up. Greg Gillis released his first mash up CD in 2002, called “Secret Diary.” Its very different from what he now puts out because, as a stated before, the change in technology made things a whole lot easier and increased the ability to make mash ups more enjoyable.

Something unique about mash ups is, that if two artists where to take the same handful of songs, the two mash up results that come out would be completely different from each other. This is because the way the mash ups are built. The artists would take different snippets from the same song and find two different places to put it in their track to where they think that it would work better. That is one of the greatest things about mash up music. Beauty is truly in the ears of the creator.

Lyndon State Enrollment | Infographics

In Class Assignment - VSO

VSO Coming to Lyndon State College

The VSO is scheduled to play at the Alexander Twilight Theatre at Lyndon State College at 7:30 on September 26, 2013. The Vermont Symphony Orchestra is nearly 80 years old and play with the intention of spreading the appreciation of a variety type of music.

(LYNDONVILLE, Vt) - The Vermont Symphony Orchestra is to come to Lyndon State College on September 26, 2013. The show is going to begin at 7:30 at the Alexander Twilight Theatre at LSC.

For nearly 80 years, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, also known as VSO, has been key in the states art community. They go from playing in big theaters, to playing on hillsides, reaching things like school gymnasiums and armories in between.

The VSO mission is to spread the appreciation for music far an few between and in a variety of types focusing on Orchestra, Chorals, and Chambers.

If a taste of their music so desired before the show, they have a listen to VSO tab on their website. More information can be found out on their website.

WOODTV Critique

 At first glance, WOOD TV’s website looked easy to get around and had a nice layout.

I like how it has the easy tabs on the top of the website like Home, Weather, Target 8, but came to a halt when I realized that there was no “sports” section. It could just be me being a huge sports guy, but I feel like that just needs to be something available at easy access because everyone like it.

What I really don't like about it, is that when you go to scroll, the whole page doesn't scroll, just the article. That only bothers me because if I went to an article, that means I want to read the article, not keep the header of the website in front of my eyes at all times.

Writing for the Web II

Roaring Creek Bridge Re-opened
After a year of having to travel more then 9 miles for what would be a short trip with the Roaring Creek bridge, the bridge is to be reopened today at 11 a.m. 

The bridge over Roaring Creek which was washed out during a flood last year is to have its opening ceremony this morning at 11 a.m, Midville mayor, Seth Montana will be there along with U.S Congressman Nancy Draughorn, and U.S Senator Warren Johns.

The County has been working on the bridge since it washed out due to the hardship it gave the people in Oak Grove County, north of Roaring Creek.

Massive Inconvenience

"Traveling all that way had made it very inconvenient for a lot of people," Oak Grove resident Josh Spiva said, "We've had to use a lot of time and gasoline just to make what otherwise would be a very short trips."

"The bridge was not in great shape when it was destroyed." County Department if transportation head Roland Lively says, "We already had some money in the county budget for repairs. Problem was, we didn't have enough to replace the bridge."

The Bridge cost about $700,000 to replace. The county paid $100,000, state paid $200,000, and the U.S Department of Transportation funds were $400,000.

Writing for the Wed I

Accident at Central Restaurant in Lyndonville
An accident due to break failure on Depot Street, Lyndonville, Vt, scares man to death. Driver suffered minor injures

At 12:31 p.m Annie Coulter, age 82 of Barton, Vt, swerved to avoid hitting a pedestrian on Depot Street in Lyndonville Vt.

When she swerved the brakes on her vehicle failed and Coulter crashed into the window of Central Restaurant.

Jon Baker, 59 of Concord, Vt, was eating a meal in the restaurant at the time of the accident. Baker was not struck by the vehicle but suffered minor cuts from the flying glass.

Scared to Death

Baker got up to try and help Coulter when he had complained about chest pains. Baker then collapsed while trying to help and died due to a heart attack.

Coulter escaped from her vehicle suffering minor injuries.

Robbery in Swanton Under Investigation

(LYNDONVILLE, Vt) - A man suspect robbed the Sunoco at 166 First Street in Swanton, Vt, on December 7 at 1:15AM.

The assailant is described to be a white male approximately 5’8” - 6’00” has escaped by foot with an undisclosed amount of cash and items. No one was injured. The police are following up on leads

Any information should be given to the Vermont State Police in Saint Albans by phone, 802-524-5993, or the Franklin County Sheriff’s office at 802-524-2121.

A Tree, Bear, and Friend

               

                 On October 20, 2013 Wayne Goff, 58, of Wolcott, VT,  shot Conrad Masse, 76, of Craftsbury, VT,  during bear hunt and gets charged with aggravated assault.

                After releasing the hounds with GPS tracking devices to find a bear, Goff and Masse set up on Urie Rd, Albany VT, to wait out for the hounds to push the bear between them. Goff and Masse were approximately 541 feet apart from each other when the bear started its route.

                Masse let off three shots, one of which successfully striking the bear, but another struck Goff. Goff is in stable condition after going to Dartmouth Hitchcock Center to be treated.

                Masse is issued a citation to appear at the Orleans Superior Court on February 28^th, 2014 under the charges of Aggravated Assault. He is also issued  ticked by the Vermont Fish and Game for shooting from the road, having a loaded rifle in his vehicle, and not having proper display of permits for the hounds. 

Blog Crituqe

Gizmodo.com

I really like about this blog mostly because it's all about things that I actually enjoy. Its about all of the new technology that is being built, or concepts that seem that they can be real. What I don't like about it is that you can't tell what is real.

This blog gets updated literally every hour. Obviously there are times when it is a lot less active and that is usually at night when the moderated should theoretically should be asleep.

As for the comments, this is a very active blog. There are a lot of comments on every day, within the first hour of a post being up, there will be about 5 comments I'd say.

Every post that is posted on this blog will have at least a picture if not then a video as well, which is what I really do enjoy. It gives you a better idea of what the text is talking about

The Stuggle

This being the first blog I've ever created myself, I've come to realize that it is far from an easy process.

I wanted to be....different, go with something that was far from a basic template for my background. I was unaware of how much work was put into it, seeing that I know little to nothing about HTML.

I ran into code like so, furthering my research on how to go about building a blog to make it pop out and grab the attention of most people.

Over time, I will teach myself more on blogging but the way I see things are, I CANNOT overwhelm myself with anything new.